Characters 1
A woman who often feels lonely and teases the migrant workers.
Curley's Wife
The stable man of the farm who must live alone because he is black.
Crooks.
What is the name of Curley's Wife?
She is never named.
Why did Curley fight with Lennie?
Curley thought Lennie was laughing at him.
"Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he's goin' to come back. S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that?" - Crooks, Ch. 4
"I get lonely," she said. "You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How'd you like not to talk to anybody?" -Curley's wife, Ch. 5
What is the theme of both excerpts?
Loneliness
Owns a very old dog and has to make a tough decision about the dog.
Candy
A very large, very strong man who loves animals, but doesn't know his own strength.
Lennie
What is the name of the town from which George and Lennie are fleeing when the novel begins?
Weed
What does Curley's wife offer to let Lennie touch?
Her hair.
"S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that?
Which word best illustrates Crooks' tone?
Angry
George
The owner of the farm's son. A tough man who is often cruel to his wife and the other workers.
Curley.
How are George and Lennie different from other guys who work on ranches?
Each has the other to look out for him.
Name 3 animals killed in the course of the story.
“ I was only foolin’ George. I don’t want no ketchup. I wouldn’t eat no ketchup if it was right here beside me.”
“Whatta you want?”
“But I wouldn’t eat none, George. I’d leave it all for you. You could cover beans with it and I wouldn’t touch none of it.”
George still stared morosely at the fire. “When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace.”
Lennie still knelt. He looked off into the darkness across the river.
“George, you want I should go away and leave you alone?”
“Where the hell could you go?”
“Well, I could. I could go off in the hills there. Some place I’d find a cave.”
“Yeah? How’d you eat? You ain’t got sense enough to find nothing to eat.”
How could you describe George in this passage?
PPT
Angry
Slim
Who said, "This ain't no bad thing like I got to go hid in the brush. Oh! no. This ain't. I'll tell George I foun' it dead."?
Lennie
Who cared for Lennie before George?
Lennie's Aunt Clara
After killing Curley's wife, which pair of imaginary characters appear to chastise Lennie for his behavior?
Aunt Clara and a rabbit.
“Well, I could. I could go off in the hills there. Some place I’d find a cave.”
“Yeah? How’d you eat? You ain’t got sense enough to find nothing to eat.”
“I’d find things, George. I don’t need no nice food with ketchup. I’d lay out in the sun and nobody’d hurt me. An’ if I foun’ a mouse, I could keep it. Nobody’d take it away from me.”
George looked quickly and searchingly at him. “I been mean, ain’t I?”
“If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away any time.”
“No—look! I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. ‘Cause I want you to stay with me. Trouble with mice is you always kill ‘em.” He paused. “Tell you what I’ll do, Lennie. First chance I get I’ll give you a pup. Maybe you wouldn’t kill it. That’d be better than mice. And you could pet it harder.”
Which type of conflict do we see in this passage?
Character vs Character
"He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders... There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke. His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love."
Who is being described?
Slim
"He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders... There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke. His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love."
Is this direct or indirect characterization?
Direct Characterization
Name 3 things George could do without Lennie?
Go to a cat house, drink whiskey all night, play cards at a pool hall.
What is the significance of the killing of Candy's dog?
It foreshadows that George will kill Lennie.
Throughout the novel, Curley's wife does not have a name other than the title "Curley's Wife". Why did Steinbeck not give her a name?
He wanted to make a statement about women's roles during this time period.